New Zealand Native Orchids
 
 
Microtis arenaria
 

 

Microtis arenaria
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Plant: to 25cm tall with numerous greenish-yellow flowers.

Flowering: October.

Flowers: 3-5 mm long, labellum deeply notched at its tip, with a back-facing point between the lobes; dorsal sepal with a tiny upturned tip. Ovary characteristically humpbacked.

Habitat: sandy soil, dry gumland in scrub, dunes. Northland

Conservation: uncommon, vagrant.

Notes: common Australian species.

Key features: hump-backed ovary and forked tip to the labellum.